Panelists Todd Fast, Zembly (Sun Microsystems) Jay Parikh, Ning Brad Peters, Birst Moderated by: Dave Nielsen, Platform D

Emerging Application examples:

Zembly, call some code that exists already on the web. 2 levels of collaboration. Cloning other people’s pieces. Building social graph of other developers to develop an application. Key to success of applications from casual developers [...]

Panelists: George Jaquette, Intacct Chris Richardson, Cloud Foundry Praful Shah, Ringcentral, Inc. Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs Moderated by: Tim Guleri, Sierra Ventures

What is good to run on the cloud vs what is not?

Engineer for order of magnitude with the time you will be on it, 2 boxes that are different cost time to integrate. [...]

Randy Bias, GoGrid Ken Oestreich, Egenera Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Moderated by: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek

Manage infrastructure level like painting of golden gate bridge—servers die but system is built for failure Possible potholes—comfortable with more automation, releasing control from statically monitored and controlled environs Organizational potholes (apps, virtualization etc) separate [...]

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Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa K.V. Rao, Zuora Lisa Rutherford, TwoFish Moderated by: Chris Yeh, PBWiki

Is enterprise software is dead. Why? Traditional software players cannot take advantage of evolutions to subscription model due to fixed costs. Selling software as a good on CD model just doesn’t work anymore.

When thinking of business models ask yourself–who is going to buy this? What they [...]